Panzerjäger vs KV-1


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On the Soviet side, based upon lessons from the Spanish Civil War, the Red Army decided to develop a heavy “breakthrough” tank to smash enemy infantry defenses. This resulted in the KV-1 and KV-2 tanks, introduced in 1939. At the start of Operation Barbarossa, both these tanks were virtually invulnerable to the weapons of the Panzerjäger and demonstrated their ability to overrun German infantry on several occasions. This advantage gave the Red Army a window of opportunity between the fall of 1941 and the spring of 1942 to use their heavy tanks to repel the German invasion in a series of desperate counteroffensives. Yet the window of Soviet advantage was a narrow one and the duel between the Soviet KV heavy tanks and German Panzerjäger had a major impact upon the struggle for the strategic initiative in 1941-42.




The Indian System of Human Marks


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In The Indian System of Human Marks, Zysk offers a literary history of the Indian system of knowledge, which details divination by means of the marks on the bodies of both men and women. In addition to a historical analysis, the work includes texts and translations of the earliest treatises in Sanskrit. This is followed by a detailed philological analysis of the texts and annotations to the translations. The history follows the Indian system’s evolution from its roots in ancient Mesopotamian collections of omen on the human body to modern-day practice in Rajasthan in the north and Tamilnadu in the south. A special feature of the book is Zysk’s edition and translation of the earliest textual collection of the system in the Gargīyajyotiṣa from the 1st century CE. The system of human marks is one of the few Indian textual sources that links ancient India with the antique cultures of Mesopotamia and Greece.




WORLDWIDE LOTTERY GAMES In Naturally Optimized Systems: Pick 5


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Worldwide Lottery Games In Naturally Optimized Systems Pick 5 has been developed on the authors’ initiative, based on the belief that nothing in the Universe happens by chance because there are laws governing everything, and by increasing our knowledge, we can triumph over mere chance. This is a book for players and/or groups of players (syndicates) who want to play to more than seventy lottery games from at least fifty countries over five continents, as: MEGA MILLIONS (U.S.A., Multi-State), POWERBALL (U.S.A., Multi-State), EUROMILLIONS (Europe, Multi-Country), EUROJACKPOT (Europe, Multi-Country), SUPER LOTTO (China), SIKKIM THUNDERBALL (India), THUNDERBALL (U.K.), LOTO (France) SANS TOPU (Turkey), EL GORDO (Spain), GOSLOTO 5 iz 36 (Russia), MINI LOTO (Japan), QUINA (Brazil) and so on. Worldwide Lottery Games In Naturally Optimized Systems Pick 5 contains 122 systems built with the help of original mathematical models. It is an original book comprising 51 simple variants systems, 38 pivoted variants systems and 33 combined variants systems for which the number of played numbers has values between 9 and 67 inclusive. Each system has its main characteristics, the winnings index and the unfolding on variants. The categories and the winnings will certainly be within the limits of one of the situations specified in the winnings index of the system used. All the playing systems selected in the present book are originally and naturally optimized, because the main parameters of the component combinatorial structures have optimal values. Therefore, 90 playing systems are at a level of absolute performance, which means with a smaller number of combinations, of the same category, it is not possible to get higher winnings indexes. The other 32 playing systems are at the highest level of current performance. More, all the playing systems are highly balanced. Experience in recent years has confirmed the value of the naturally optimized systems included in the book, through the numerous and substantial wins obtained by their help in many countries. Using the naturally optimized systems is a smart strategy for playing the lottery. FIVE ADVANTAGES OF NATURALLY OPTIMIZED SYSTEMS - Harmony with nature They are generated in harmony with nature, as they are based on the principles of balance, symmetry and proportion – fundamental principles of the creation, known everywhere in the world for thousands of years, which ensures their durability and high quality. - Optimum performance They are at a level of absolute performance, or at the highest level of current performance, as the main parameters of their combinatorial structures have optimum values. - Multi-system compatibility They are useful both to players and to groups of players worldwide, for lottery games of 5, 6 and 7 numbers in simple variant. - Guaranteed wins They help the lottery players to obtain guaranteed wins, strictly according to the previsions of the winnings indexes. - Accessibility They are easily accessible, can be understood by any player and their use does not require great effort, the action being made as simple as possible.




Insurance, Fund Size, and Concentration


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Schon um die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts verfügten die deutschen Bergleute mit den zahlreichen lokalen Knappschaftsvereinen über ein eigenes institutionalisiertes Sozialversicherungssystem mit einer langen, ins Mittelalter zurückreichenden Tradition. Ihren Mitgliedern boten die Knappschaftsvereine Versicherungsschutz gegen die wesentlichen Daseinsrisiken Krankheit, Invalidität, Tod des Ernährers der Familie und Langlebigkeit. Mit Blick auf die Periode zwischen Knappschaftsgesetz einerseits und Gründung der Reichsknappschaft andererseits (1854-1923) untersucht diese Arbeit ein versicherungsökonomisches Problem, über das bereits die zeitgenössischen Beobachter der Knappschaftsvereine intensiv diskutierten: Wie ist die optimale Größe eines Sozialversicherungsträgers zu bestimmen und zu implementieren? Gibt es überhaupt eine „optimale“ Größe? Oder gilt nicht vielmehr „je größer, desto besser“? Vor dem Hintergrund zweier ökonomischer Kategorien – versicherungstechnisches Risikos und Verwaltungseffizienz – werden diese Fragen am konkreten historischen Beispiel der preußischen Knappschaftsvereine untersucht. Obwohl die jüngere Historiographie die außerordentliche Bedeutung der Knappschaftsvereine des 19. Jahrhunderts als eines der ersten Sozialversicherungssysteme überhaupt herausgestellt hat, stellt deren Wirtschafts- bzw. Versicherungsgeschichte ein Forschungsdesiderat dar. Diese Arbeit füllt zu einem gewissen Grad diese Forschungslücke, indem sie auf ein historisches Phänomen fokussiert, dessen Analyse nicht ohne den direkten Bezug auf grundlegende ökonomische Zusammenhänge auskommt: der zu beobachtende Prozess interner und insbesondere externer Konzentration innerhalb der Knappschaftsvereine, der spätestens mit dem frühen 1870iger Jahren einsetzte und in der Gründung der Reichsknappschaft kulminierte.





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Transactions on Intelligent Welding Manufacturing


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The primary aim of this volume is to provide researchers and engineers from both academia and industry with up-to-date coverage of recent advances in the fields of robotic welding, intelligent systems and automation. It gathers selected papers from the 2018 International Conference on Robotic Welding, Intelligence and Automation (RWIA 2018), held Oct 20-22, 2018 in Guangzhou, China. The contributions reveal how intelligentized welding manufacturing (IWM) is becoming an inescapable trend, just as intelligentized robotic welding is becoming a key technology. The volume is divided into four main parts: Intelligent Techniques for Robotic Welding, Sensing in Arc Welding Processing, Modeling and Intelligent Control of Welding Processing, and Intelligent Control and its Applications in Engineering.







Bibliotheca Indica


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